Ten years ago I was invited to an “Eve-of-420” event It was at a club in San Rafael called Terrapin Crossroads, launched by Phil Lesh of Grateful Dead fame. There was valet parking, a rare…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
"Detention Center" (replacing "prison") is hereby added to our two-words-for one list. To review… There's been a trend in the American language whereby two words are substituted for one. For example, ” Human Resources” has…
There will be a memorial get-together honoring Wayne Justmann today at 2 PM, at 3049 Adaline Ave. in Berkeley. I got to know him in 1996, when he was "head of security" at the San…
“EthnoBotany of the Black Americans” by William Ed Grimé is a well-researched, succinct book listing 242 plant species introduced and/or used by Black slaves in the Americas. Among them were okra, peanut, akee, cannabis, African…
On January 13 the media focused on the President giving the finger to a worker in Detroit who called him "a pedophile protector." Trump's response became the story, not the fact that Jeffrey Epstein's ghost…
The Golden State Warriors invited the seven surviving players from the team that won the NBA championship in 1975 — Charles Dudley, Jamaal Wilkes, Clifford Ray, Rick Barry, George Johnson, Butch Beard and Jeff Mullins…
I turned 84 today and created The Fuck-it List™. You know, of course, about the Bucket List – things you hope to do before you die. The Fuck-it List™ is for things you've been hoping…
Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young man madly in love with a member of the furry community. "You Call it Madness, But I Call it Love"On the radio in the DepressionNailed the dichotomy right…
Noam Chomsky, who lives in Lexington, Mass. and teaches linguistics at MIT, spends almost every weekend on the road, giving talks on political themes. His classes are scheduled towards the end of the week, so…